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The UNHCR Refugee Data app showcases forced displacement and statelessness statistics over the last 24 years by country of asylum and origin.
People that UNHCR protects and/or assists include those who have been forcibly displaced (refugees, asylum-seekers, other people in need of international protection and internally displaced people); those who are stateless (most of whom are not forcibly displaced); and other groups of concern to whom UNHCR has extended its protection or provided assistance on a humanitarian basis. Refugee and IDP returnees are included in the solutions datasets.
| Year ↑ |
Country of Origin |
Country of Asylum |
Refugees under UNHCR’s mandate |
Asylum-seekers |
IDPs of concern to UNHCR |
Other people in need of international protection |
Stateless persons |
Host community |
Others of concern |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Singapore | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Footnote | Year | Country of Origin |
Country of Asylum |
Population Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Persons under UNHCR’s statelessness mandate were included in the category “Others of concern” until 2003. | 2018 | - | - | STA,OOC |
| Figure refers to persons who have been recognized as stateless through the statelessness determination procedure in 2013 - 2018. | 2018 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | STA |
| Since 2007, people in refugee-like situations are included in the refugee estimates. Figures as from 2007 are not fully comparable with previous years | 2018 | - | - | REF |
| Since 2007, people in IDP-like situations are included in the IDP estimates. IDP figures since 2007 are not fully comparable with previous years. | 2018 | - | - | IDP |
| Data refers to number of cases or mix of persons and cases. | 2018 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ASY |
| Small values between zero and five have been rounded to multiples of five. Data on asylum applications and decisions has additionally been rounded for small values between five and 10. Demographic data has been additionally modified so that the data remains additive. | 2019 - 2022 | - | - | REF,OIP,HST,OOC,STA,IDP,ASY |
| The UK’s statelessness figures show the number of stateless individuals recognised through the UK's stateless determination procedure since it began in 2013. In previous years, this figure has been calculated by adding all grants of stateless leave which resulted in unavoidable double counting for stateless individuals who were subsequently granted stateless leave after reapplying. The UK Government has now provided data for initial and subsequent grants and subsequent grants have been removed from the previous cumulative figure. As a result the number of individuals granted stateless leave from an initial application between 2013-2018 has been revised down to 109 from 125. In 2019, there were a further 52 initial grants of stateless leave bringing the cumulative total to 161 individuals recognised through the UK's statelessness determination procedure since it began in 2013. | 2019 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | STA |
| Asylum applications which are reported as cases can be multiplied overall by average number of person per case of 1.3 when summarising the data by country of asylum, but not origin. This is due to the significant variance in the average case size by country of origin. | 2018 - 2022 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | ASY |
| The UK's statelessness figure shows the number of stateless individuals recognized through the UK's stateless determination procedure since it began in 2013. Since 2019, the total figure has been corrected to only include initial grants of leave following individuals’ recognition as stateless. | 2020 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | STA |
| The data are generally provided by governments, based on their own definitions and methods of data collection. | 2019 - 2022 | - | - | ASY,REF,IDP,STA,OOC,HST,OIP |
| The UK’s stateless figures show the number of stateless individuals recognised through the UK's stateless determination procedure since it began in 2013. In previous years, this figure has been calculated by adding all grants of stateless leave. This resulted in unavoidable double counting for stateless individuals who were applying for further statelessness leave after the expiry of their initial grant of leave. The UK Government has now provided data for initial and subsequent grants. The subsequent grants have therefore been removed from the previous cumulative figure between 2013 - 2018. Since 2019, the cumulative figure now only includes initial grants of leave following individuals’ recognition as stateless. At the end of 2021, the total number of individuals recognised under UK’s statelessness determination procedure is 258. UNHCR further provides the number of asylum-seekers and refugees whose nationality has been recorded as ‘stateless’ as part of the asylum process. For this group there has been no formal determination that they are stateless. | 2021 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | STA |
| Other people in need of international protection refers to people who are outside their country or territory of origin, typically because they have been forcibly displaced across international borders, who have not been reported under other categories (asylum-seekers, refugees, people in refugee-like situations) but who likely need international protection, including protection against forced return, as well as access to basic services on a temporary or longer-term basis. | 2019 - 2022 | - | - | OIP |
| When presenting statistics on internal displacement, UNHCR applies two different sources: the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre’s IDP statistics are incorporated in the total forcibly displaced while those IDPs protected/assisted by UNHCR are included in the total population that UNHCR protects and/or assists. The two sources of IDP data vary significantly in certain countries. | 2022 | - | - | IDP |
| Host community refers to a community that hosts large populations of refugees or internally displaced persons, whether in camps, integrated into households, or independently. UNHCR reports on host communities in countries with substantive programmes focusing on sharing the burden of hosting large refugee populations, as set out in the Global Compact on Refugees. | 2021 - 2022 | - | - | HST |
| The UK’s stateless figures show the number of stateless individuals recognised through the UK's stateless determination procedure since it began in 2013. In previous years, this figure has been calculated by adding all grants of stateless leave. This resulted in unavoidable double counting for stateless individuals who were applying for further statelessness leave after the expiry of their initial grant of leave. The UK Government has now provided data for initial and subsequent grants. The subsequent grants have therefore been removed from the previous cumulative figure between 2013 - 2018. Since 2019, the cumulative figure now only includes initial grants of leave following individuals’ recognition as stateless. At the end of 2022, the total number of individuals recognised under UK’s statelessness determination procedure is 319. UNHCR further provides the number of asylum-seekers and refugees whose nationality has been recorded as ‘stateless’ as part of the asylum process. For this group there has been no formal determination that they are stateless. | 2022 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | STA |
| The UK’s stateless figures show the number of stateless individuals recognised through the UK's stateless determination procedure since it began in 2013. In previous years, this figure has been calculated by adding all grants of stateless leave. This resulted in unavoidable double counting for stateless individuals who were applying for further statelessness leave after the expiry of their initial grant of leave. The UK Government has now provided data for initial and subsequent grants. The subsequent grants have therefore been removed from the previous cumulative figure between 2013 - 2018. Since 2019, the cumulative figure now only includes initial grants of leave following individuals’ recognition as stateless. As of 2023, the total number of individuals recognised under UK’s statelessness determination procedure is 362. UNHCR further provides the number of asylum-seekers and refugees whose nationality has been recorded as ‘stateless’ as part of the asylum process. For this group there has been no formal determination that they are stateless.The number of 'stateless' asylum-seekers in the UK awaiting a decision has been revised, following decisions on their asylum claims during the year. | 2023 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | STA |
| The UK’s stateless figures show the number of stateless individuals recognised through the UK's stateless determination procedure since it began in 2013. In previous years, this figure has been calculated by adding all grants of stateless leave. This resulted in unavoidable double counting for stateless individuals who were applying for further statelessness leave after the expiry of their initial grant of leave. The UK Government has now provided data for initial and subsequent grants. The subsequent grants have therefore been removed from the previous cumulative figure between 2013 - 2018. Since 2019, the cumulative figure now only includes initial grants of leave following individuals’ recognition as stateless. As of 2024, the total number of individuals recognised under UK’s statelessness determination procedure is 389. UNHCR further provides the number of asylum-seekers and refugees whose nationality has been recorded as ‘stateless’ as part of the asylum process. For this group there has been no formal determination that they are stateless. The number of 'stateless' asylum-seekers in the UK awaiting a decision has been revised, following decisions on their asylum claims during the year. | 2024 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | STA |
| Official statistics on the size of the refugee population are not available. UNHCR refugee population estimates is based on the cumulative number of recognized asylum-seekers over the past 10 years, plus the reported number of beneficiaries of Temporary Protection in the country by end-2024. | 2024 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | REF |
| Refugees includes people in refugee-like situations | 2022 - 2024 | - | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | REF |
